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From wire reports • Thursday November 29, 2012 7:23 AM

CAIRO — The California man behind the
Innocence of Muslims movie that triggered violence in the Middle East was sentenced to
death yesterday in absentia in an Egyptian court.

Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, was among the seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based
American pastor sentenced on charges linked to the low-budget, anti-Islam film.

The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United
States, all are outside Egypt and unlikely to serve the sentences.